Coup de foudre: a novella and stories

✍ Scribed by Ken Kalfus

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Year: 2015;2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 129 KB
• Edition: Paperback edition
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1632863804

✦ Synopsis

The explosive new collection by the celebrated author of Thirst and PEN/Faulkner Award finalist Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies , Coup de Foudre is the kind of groundbreaking work of literary invention Ken Kalfus's fans have come to expect. The book is anchored by the full text of the provocatively topical title novella that appeared in Harper's , a sometimes farcical, ultimately tragic story about the president of an international lending institution accused of sexually assaulting a housekeeper in a New York hotel. Recalling recent news events with irony and compassion, Kalfus skewers international political gridlock and the hypocrisies of acceptable sexual conduct.

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